“During the Los Angeles mayoral primary, Spencer Pratt put out a video saying he was living in a trailer on the burned-out lot where his Pacific Palisades home once stood — a claim that was soon debunked by TMZ, which reported that he was actually staying at the Hotel Bel-Air,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

“While Pratt’s mayoral bid has come to a close, his campaign’s final spending on luxury hotels — including the Hotel Bel-Air — is now coming to light.”

“Pratt spent just under $71,000 on hotels for himself, his campaign staff and his fundraising operation.”

“New York City was sued by a group of homeowners seeking to delay the rollout of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new pied-à-terre tax, saying the publication of a list of properties that could be subject to the levy has caused ‘mass confusion’ and invited ‘unwarranted scrutiny’ of their personal information,” Bloomberg reports.

“New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.”

“The mayor this week fired dozens of corporate leaders from the advisory board of a multimillion-dollar philanthropic fund called the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City…”

“The shake-up marked the latest effort by Mamdani, an avowed Democratic Socialist, to put distance between himself and the city’s traditional power brokers.”

“New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, not even eight months into his job, is full-throttling his Democratic Socialist agenda at a time when democratic socialism is on the march,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has kept the city’s business leaders waiting to see his plan to grow the local economy,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“This week, the city’s business elite received an unexpected surprise when Mamdani named a new chair of the city’s powerful Economic Development Corporation: Lina Khan, the 37-year-old who made her name crusading against the world’s largest corporations as head of the Federal Trade Commission during the Biden administration.”

“The appointment of Khan, who is seen by Wall Street and Big Tech as hostile to business, sent a jolt through some of the more rarefied corners of the business community. But a separate appointment blunted the shock, and for some, is sending mixed signals. Mamdani also appointed Tony Shorris, a long-trusted hand for the city and business community, as the EDC’s president and CEO.”

“New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Lina Khan, the antimonopoly former Federal Trade Commission head, to chair the city’s Economic Development Corporation, a surprise announcement that puts a crusading official in charge of managing the city’s business growth,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

NOTUS: Mamdani taps antitrust crusader Lina Khan for key role in his administration.

“Mayor Zohran Mamdani will deliver a presidential-style speech Friday for America’s 250th birthday in what City Hall billed a ‘major address’ hours before President Trump delivers his own remarks,” the New York Post reports.